All 132 victims of the China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 crash have been identified through DNA testing, a civil aviation official said at a news conference on Monday.

The search team will now focus entirely on identifying victims' belongings and recovering the airplane's wreckage.

The decoding analysis for the recovered two black boxes is underway, said Zhu Tao, head of the aviation safety office of the Civil Aviation Administration of China. 

Rescuers have found 36,001 plane wreckage pieces across a search area of 370,000 square meters, Zhu said.

Over 1,100 counselors and medical professionals reached out to victims' family members. 

(Cover: Search and rescue operations for crashed flight MU5735 are underway, Tengxian County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, March 24. /CFP)